Word: flux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, the death seemed just as inevitably cyclical as the flux of international negotiations. Both times, South African officials had immediately suggested SWAPO as culprits; they noted the guerrilla group's opposition to any Turnhalle-type talks, in which Elifas had also agreed to participate shortly before his assassination. Even then, some Ovambo migrant workers opposed to the conference had been quoted in the New York Times as predicting "jubilantly" that "Clemens Kapuuo will be next...
Rothman and Lichter call this phenomenon the "protean form of psycho-political rebellion" because the (Jewish) rebels sought out "change, flux, and fluidity... [aiming] at the continual destruction of social institutions, insofar as they interfere[d] with individual experimentation...
...public hearing last spring, the nine councilors rejected the plan, the first such rebellion by a local government. A spokesman for the Cambridge Civil Defense Agency, who refuses to be identified, says that preparations in the city "are in limbo, the whole plan is in a state of flux...
...element, into a superconductor of electricity by cooling it to within nine degrees of absolute zero (minus 460° F). Current thus moved through it without resistance, allowing the slightest twitch in the current's flow to be recorded. At 1:53 p.m. on Feb. 14, the magnetic flux in Cabrera's device jumped eight steps, exactly what was expected if a Dirac monopole passed through. Cabrera, a little skeptical, hit his device with a screwdriver to see if that blow too would register a significant reading. It did not. After examining every possible explanation, Cabrera concluded that...
...poems are filled with the shadows of death or dying. Their energy comes not from the idea of mortality or the perverse vividness of death images, but from the appreciation of the life-images and from the oddness of the associations Wright makes. He links stone with vision and flux, water with destruction, bones with life in its most vivid state. And the collection is sprinkled with two-or-three-paragraph poems, in which Wright conducts interesting experiments with his artistic control...